Pamela O’Leary

PAMELA O’LEARY is a diversity and inclusion talent acquisition leader at Ericsson. She has been an adjunct instructor at American University and Trinity Washington University, where she taught courses on women’s leadership, gender and politics, and nonprofit management. O’Leary is the former executive director of the Public Leadership Education Network. She currently serves on the advisory council for Running Start and facilitates a Women in Management (WIM) group at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She serves as an appointed commissioner on the City of San Mateo planning commission. She was selected as a 2016 Impact Fellow at Singularity University. O’Leary is the youngest elected member of the San Mateo County Democratic central committee. In 2013, she was invited to participate as an expert at United Nations meetings in Geneva and New York for the UN System-Wide Action Plan (SWAP) for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. At the US House of Representatives, she proposed and led efforts to successfully pass a resolution condemning rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (H Res 1227, 110th). O’Leary earned an M.A. in applied women’s studies from Claremont Graduate University, and a B.A. in environmental science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in organizational development and change. @ericsson